Leoben Surroundings, Template finished Options

[dgionet]

Hi to all,

Following Moe Smith's (dispatcher) ideas earlier this summer for international routes, I have started in mid-August a new template but had decided to stop the project in September to take some time off. I have resumed the template about 10 days ago and is now finished.

The sixth country to have a template is Austria's Leoben Surroundings. The route is a close representation of the real area in Austrian Styria, between Graz, Bruck an der Mur, Leoben and Unzmarkt, Most of the route is double line and goes along the Mur River. The route starts West at Unzmarkt (MP256) and goes Eastward through main cities such as Judenburg (MP240), Knittelfeld (MP224) and St-Michael (MP212). East of St-Michael, the train goes 10km along the Mur River through Hinterberg and Goess before reaching Leoben. A six (6) km tunnel, which is also part of the route, has been built later which goes straight from St-Michael to Leoben. From Leoben, the line goes further East through Niklasdorf towards Bruck, the Eastern part of the route, about 15km away. From Bruck, the line turns South towards Peggau, about 35 km away.

The route has also two branch lines. The first branch starts at Leoben and goes North to the town of Vordernberg about 15km away. The second branch goes from Peggau and goes East towards Uebelbach about 10km away.


The template package for the Leoben Surroundings route includes Eastbound (EB) and Westbound (WB) templates, totalling 17 different paths for your switching preferences. You will be able to do manoeuvring along the 250 serviceable sidings inside the route. To help in assigning tasks, 51 area maps has been screen captured to allow you to see every serviceable area and the orientation of the sidings markers to help determine your work.

Please take note that due to the presence of many sidings bearing the same name along the different regions, it will be highly recommended to print the workorder generated by Activity Generator since AG4 includes in the printing document the region associated to the sidings, absent in the displayed MSTS workorder.

A rare feature in any MSTS route has been noticed in making the template. Between Unzmarkt and Bruck, that is on the East-West axis, right hand driving is the rule. Between Bruck and Peggau, that is on the North-South axis, left-hand driving is the way to go along this stretch of the route.

In the next minutes, I will be sending the template package to Steve for uploading into the templates page.

In the meantme, here are some shots of the route.

Enjoy,

[sgdavis]

This template has now been posted. Get it on our Downloads page or at http://www.skylinecomputing.com/downloads/...%20Template.zip

Thanks Denis!

Regards,

Steve